Jay Acunzo

Author of Break the Wheel, ex-Google, ESPN, HubSpot, and NextView VC, and host/producer of critically-acclaimed audio documentaries about the working world.

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Virtual Presentation

Forged at some of the world’s best companies (Google, ESPN, HubSpot, NextView Venture Capital), and fueled by refreshingly different stories and ideas, Jay's virtual keynotes are as unique and memorable as he is. The power and impact of an in-person keynote doesn't have to get stripped away when...

How to Escape Conventional Thinking to Hone Your Intuition and Do Your Best Work We live in a world flooding with best practices, conventional wisdom, and trendy tactics. Every day, dozens of supposed “right” answers both internally and externally promise that they will deliver our best results....

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Forged at some of the world’s best companies (Google, ESPN, HubSpot, NextView Venture Capital), and fueled by refreshingly different stories and ideas, Jay's virtual keynotes are as unique and memorable as he is.

The power and impact of an in-person keynote doesn't have to get stripped away when moving online. Jay approaches his virtual talks as far more than a mundane webinar. They are true experiences crafted to fit the delivery vehicle. For virtual events, different doesn't mean worse with Jay Acunzo.

Break The Wheel

How to Escape Conventional Thinking to Hone Your Intuition and Do Your Best Work

We live in a world flooding with best practices, conventional wisdom, and trendy tactics. Every day, dozens of supposed “right” answers both internally and externally promise that they will deliver our best results. It’s all we can do to simply keep up, let alone take control, get proactive, and finally do our best work. It’s like we’re trapped. We’re stuck on this always-spinning wheel of reactive decisions and commodity work, and this wheel leads straight to the one place we don’t want our companies or careers to be: average.

It’s time to escape this cycle. It’s time to break the wheel.

In this fast-paced, inspiring talk, award-winning documentary host and former Google and startup brand-builder Jay Acunzo will hand attendees a sledgehammer. They’ll learn how to find clarity more quickly among the noise, cutting through past precedents and buzzy trends that only create sameness in their niche. Through science and story, Jay will share a framework to more successfully think for yourself when surrounded by conventional thinking. This isn’t about being a rebel. It’s about driving real results for companies and careers alike. In the end, attendees will become the welcome exceptions to the status quo.

While everyone around them merely survives, they’ll know how to thrive. Remember: Finding "best practices" isn’t the goal. Finding the best approach for you is. Jay’s presentation will inspire and empower people to do exactly that.

In this talk, attendees will learn:
The psychological barriers to making good decisions at work.
The one behavior change that can help them overcome these barriers.
Why this change can make creativity feel more logical than lofty.
How to create a personal, team-wide, or company-wide “decision-making filter” to more quickly and confidently find the best approach in each new situation.

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